Irony Quotes - Page 12

• Egotism exists everywhere, but it has a different flavor in England, where the tabloid culture goes much deeper. It's just the indulgence of vulgarity, the wallowing in vulgarity. As with everything English, there's a sort of irony to it. They write a great deal about these trivial people who have a certain eminence, always with a bit of, "Isn't it ridiculous that we are writing about this person?"

  Martin Amis

  Writing, People, Different

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Why sunset is more colorful than sunrise? It's an irony of life saying, 'sometimes, good things happen in goodbyes.

  Unknown

  Goodbye, Sunset, Sunrise

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• The rottenness of politics in Yugoslavia didn't come as a surprise. The main lesson is that this is a war which could have easily been stopped by Europe. What was lacking was any will to do so. It's an irony of the achievement of Europe that it had lived for 40 years under the assumption of the unimaginability of internal wars, so it didn't know what to do with it when it was confronted with one close up.

  Tony Judt

  War, Achievement, Assumption

  "Postwar". Interview With Julian Brookes, www.motherjones.com. December 20, 2005.

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• I think in a way the great irony or paradox about America is that it makes it so hard for the sensitive person, the artist, the impressionable person, the person whose raison d'etre is to incarnate the creative will, rather than to just make money, and yet that extreme difficulty that the culture poses for us has created some of the best artists in the last hundred years.

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

  Artist, Thinking, Creative

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• labels can be fun! Some people are like, "As a card-carrying bear, where I also have a little bit of fairy in me..." People have fun collaging these; there's a fun people have with their identifications. The irony of them can be lost if you're just wholeheartedly anti-identitarian.

  Maggie Nelson

  Fun, People, Fairy

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The irony of environmental opposition to the Keystone XL project is that stopping the pipeline to the U.S. will not stop production in the oil sands of Canada. Instead of coming to the United States, the oil will still be produced and shipped by rail or a pipeline similar to the Keystone XL to Canada's Pacific Coast.

  John Hoeven

  Oil, Environmental, Keystone Pipeline

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• I think people under age 55 come to Vegas with a certain sense of irony.

  Penn Jillette

  Thinking, Vegas, People

  "Penn & Teller: Living it up in Sin City". Interview with Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. July 30, 2003.

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• The irony is that you can't use real rain to make movies.

  Greg Kinnear

  Real, Rain, Use

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• We live in a crazy time, and parents are very worried about their children's futures. They're getting all kinds of messages about children having to score at the top level on some test. The irony is, kids could score at the top and still not succeed at finding great employment or becoming a great person.

  Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

  Children, Crazy, Kids

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.

  Florence Welch

  Veils, Way, Honest

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• It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another.

  A. N. Wilson

  Sadness, People, Joy

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• Shut the door, they're coming through the window, shut the window, they're coming through the door," are the words to an old song. They fit my lifestyle with newly arriving butcher/censors every month. Only six weeks ago, I discovered that, over the years, some cubby-hole editors at Ballantine Books, fearful of contaminating the young, had, bit by bit, censored some 75 separate sections from the novel. Students, reading the novel which, after all, deals with censorship and book-burning in the future, write to tell me of this exquisite irony.

  Ray Bradbury

  Song, Book, Reading

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

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• Now we're in a very different economy. Throughout the late 1980s and 1990s American management started to do the right things. There was extraordinary investment in technology. The dominant questions now are less how to do it better, how to manage better, how to make the economy better, than how to have fuller and more meaningful lives. Because the irony is, now that we've come through this great transition, even though our organizations and our people are extraordinarily productive, many feel that the nonwork side of life is very thin.

  Robert Reich

  Meaningful, Technology, People

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• I kept finding the same anguish, the same doubt; a self-contempt that neither irony nor intellect seemed able to deflect. Even DuBois’s learning and Baldwin’s love and Langston’s humor eventually succumbed to its corrosive force, each man finally forced to doubt art’s redemptive power, each man finally forced to withdraw, one to Africa, one to Europe, one deeper into the bowels of Harlem, but all of them in the same weary flight, all of them exhausted, bitter men, the devil at their heels.

  Barack Obama

  Art, Men, Self

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.86, Canongate Books

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• If you're an Indian, you could be very anxious about some of the Supreme Court's decisions, some of the decisions of policy makers, so maybe a little bit of irony there. But I think our "Savage Anxieties," when I titled the book, I really wanted to focus people on the challenge that tribes in this country, as well as indigenous peoples around the world, are confronting Western civilization with.

  Robert A. Williams, Jr.

  Country, Book, Thinking

  "Bill Moyers: It's a Non-Stop Land Grab From the American Indians". Interview with Bill Moyers, www.alternet.org. December 26, 2014.

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• Would you like me to [kill you] now?" asked Snape, his voice heavy with irony. "Or would you like a few moments to compose an epitaph?

  J. K. Rowling

  Voice, Moments, Heavy

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• I love dealing with drama. I'm drawn to the painful side of storytelling, more so. I feel like that's where you get the most honesty from. My laughter comes from irony. You laugh at my pain. I can't look for the laugh 'cause I'll fall flat on my face. I like the type of laughter that comes from irony like, "Of course, it's sunny today when I wore a mink coat!" I'm that guy. I was raised on Benny Hill and The Odd Couple and The Honeymooners.

  Michael K. Williams

  Laughter, Honesty, Couple

  Source: collider.com

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• Jeremy Corbyn couldn't have won without Labour changing its leadership election rules in 2014, but which more importantly got rid of the electoral college that had given MPs a third of the say over who leads the party. That's why Diane Abbott came last when she ran for leader in 2010, even though in the absolute number of votes she came third out of five. It's one of those wonderful historical ironies that the change to the rules was a victory for the Labour right, the result of a push back against the unions who had been asserting themselves more forcefully within the party.

  Alex Nunns

  Party, College, Mps

  Source: salvage.zone

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• Sir Thomas More was a victim of injustice and irony. Generously and meekly, just as he was about to be martyred, he said: Paul . . . was present, and consented to the death of St. Stephen, and kept their clothes that stoned him to death, and yet be they [Stephen and Paul] now both twain Holy Saints in heaven, and shall continue there friends for ever, so I verily trust and . . . pray, that though your lordships have now here in earth been judges to my condemnation, we may yet hereafter in heaven merrily all meet together, to our everlasting salvation.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Clothes, Judging, Heaven

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• You can say that a small attack is one in which relatively few people die, but the minute you say that, you can sense the ironies in that statement. A blast in which five people are killed is a meaningful blast.

  Karan Mahajan

  Meaningful, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• My two souls, the socially conscious one and the lighthearted one, are always in my movies because they find a perfect habitat in my grotesque style, which combines tragedy and humor, irony and sarcasm, comedy and drama. I also feel that rules are made to be broken, especially in art! I prefer creative disorder to strict rules.

  Lina Wertmuller

  Art, Drama, Sarcasm

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The unhappy irony is that, while 'Glee' is hitting the heights, school arts funding is being slashed across the country due to the steep recession and declining tax revenues.

  James Wolcott

  Country, Art, School

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• The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I've parodied over the years.

  Al Yankovic

  Years, Careers, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Bad Religion has never been about criticizing people who are Christian. But we've always been about pointing out the irony and contradictions in Christian theology and the more extreme versions of Christians that seek to challenge modern secularism.

  Greg Graffin

  Christian, People, Challenges

  "Bad Religion Cut an Unlikely Christmas EP". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.rollingstone.com. November 28, 2013.

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• I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.

  Colm Toibin

  Thinking, Play, Fiction

  Interview with Anis Shivani, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2011.

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